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On the grounds that the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument is an example of reasoning by reductio ad absurdum, and that a counterexample is unacceptable, unless all its elements meet all the necessary c...
Thought experiments in science are merely picturesque argumentation. I support this view in various ways, including the claim that it follows from the fact that thought experiments can err but can sti...
The Doomsday Argument and Hempel's Problem
Hempel's problem Doomsday Argument contraposition
2008/4/21
In this paper, I present firstly a solution to Hempel's Problem. I recall secondly the solution to the Doomsday Argument described in my previous Une Solution pour l'Argument de l'Apocalypse (Canadian...
The Doomsday Argument Without Knowledge of Birth Rank
Doomsday argument anthropic reasoning observational selection effects
2008/4/21
The Carter-Leslie Doomsday argument, as standardly presented, relies on the assumption that you have knowledge of your approximate birth rank. I demonstrate that the Doomsday argument can still be giv...
The Doomsday Simulation Argument. Or why isn't the end nigh and you're not living in a simulation.
doomsday simulation induction skepticism
2008/4/21
According to the Carter-Leslie Doomsday Argument, we should assign a high probability to the hypothesis that the human species will go extinct very soon. The argument is based on the application of Ba...
The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Argument and the Bell Inequalities
EPR Bell inequalities Pitowsky Reichenbach
2008/4/21
In 1935 Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) published an important paper in which they claimed that the whole formalism of quantum mechanics together with what they called ``Reality Criterion'' imply ...
The Hidden Premise in the Causal Argument for Physicalism
Physicalism Completeness of Physics Causal Closure of Physics
2008/4/21
The causal argument for physicalism is anayzed and it's key premise--the causal closure of physics--is found wanting. Therefore, a hidden premise must be added to the argument to gain its conclusion, ...
The rotating discs argument (RDA) against perdurantism has been mostly discussed by metaphysicians, though the argument of course appeals to ideas from classical mechanics, especially about rotation. ...
The Thermodynamical Arrow of Time: Reinterpreting the Boltzmann-Schuetz Argument
arrow of time entropy
2008/4/21
The recent surge of interest in the
origin of the temporal asymmetry of thermodynamical systems
(including the accessible part of the universe itself) put forward
two possible explanatory approache...
Why the Big Bang Singularity does not Help the Kalam Cosmological Argument for Theism
creation Kalam cosmological argument
2008/4/15
The Big Bang singularity provides little or no evidence for creation in the finite past and hence for theism. Whether one dismisses singularities or takes them seriously, physics licenses no first mom...
With Genes like that who needs an Environment? Postgenomics' argument for the 'Ontogeny of Information'
genetic information sequence specification
2008/4/15
The linear sequence specification of a gene product is not provided by the target DNA sequence alone but by the mechanisms of gene expressions. The main actors of these mechanisms, proteins and functi...
Physicist J. Richard Gott uses the Copernican principle that “we are not special” to make predictions about the future lifetime of the human race, based on how long the human race has been in existenc...
Explaining Leibniz equivalence as difference of non-inertial appearances: dis-solution of the Hole Argument and physical individuation of point-events
Hole Argument
2008/4/11
”The last remnant of physical objectivity of space-time” is disclosed in the case of a continuous family of spatially non-compact models of general relativity (GR). The physical individuation of point...
Einstein’s Miraculous Argument of 1905: The Thermodynamic Grounding of Light Quanta
Miraculous Argument Einstein
2008/4/11
A major part of Einstein’s 1905 light quantum paper is devoted to arguing that high frequency heat radiation bears the characteristic signature of a microscopic energy distribution of independent, spa...
Belief Merging and the Discursive Dilemma: An Argument-Based Account to Paradoxes of Judgment Aggregation
Judgment aggregation discursive dilemma belief merging
2008/4/10
The aggregation of individual judgments on logically interconnected propositions into a collective decision on the same propositions is called judgment aggregation. Literature in social choice and po...